"It would therefore be INCORRECT to, without further analysis, label anyone or anything that appears on the dashboard as being connected to state-backed propaganda."
Conclusion: - Matt Taibbi clearly does not understand what this dash board does and is likely sensationalizing his headlines to draw in more readers.
I was curious if that was new, here's a quote from the site founder in a Ars Technica story back in 2017:
> During that research, Berger related, he and his collaborators "identified and monitored a lot of networks that we could credibly connect to Russian influence operations in aggregate." While specifically tagging any single account as being part of an influence campaign "is problematic," Berger said, "we can see when groups are synchronized. We would load these networks up in Tweetdeck to monitor them, but that is a very difficult way to assess trends and digest content. So we began tossing the idea of a dashboard around."
Just because someone at Twitter thinks it might be the case, has a belief or collects data to suggest something doesn't make it so. Many things have unintended consequences and data wranglers are notorious for throwing out data they are suspicious of. Without knowing exactly the "method" used by both sides it is all speculation. Show me the code:)
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"It would therefore be INCORRECT to, without further analysis, label anyone or anything that appears on the dashboard as being connected to state-backed propaganda."
Conclusion: - Matt Taibbi clearly does not understand what this dash board does and is likely sensationalizing his headlines to draw in more readers.
> During that research, Berger related, he and his collaborators "identified and monitored a lot of networks that we could credibly connect to Russian influence operations in aggregate." While specifically tagging any single account as being part of an influence campaign "is problematic," Berger said, "we can see when groups are synchronized. We would load these networks up in Tweetdeck to monitor them, but that is a very difficult way to assess trends and digest content. So we began tossing the idea of a dashboard around."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/new-web-tool-tracks-...
Dec 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221227055424/https://securingd...
April 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220430105409/https://securingd...
Dec 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211206192253/https://securingd...
Appears to be there in 2021 which is way before the "Twitter Papers" were published. So it was not a reaction to that.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191020055509/https://securingd...
If I had to guess it has always said that. At least for version 2.0